Wednesday, 30 December 2009

This bootleg is the one with the coolest cover, it's really well done, it could pass by the real deal anytime. The tracks are recorded live at the Melkweg in 1984. Vinyl rip done by me, not with the best equipment, but it turned out OK.

I've been asked lately for some FOTN in Flac, so here it is and the sound can't get better than this. Also in MP3.Thanks to Tufty for sharing this first. This serves also as a taster for the upcoming concert in Portugal next year. Best news I could have heard.

This is the second Palazzograssi Production in a series of four. 1. Silence Is Platinum, 2 x 7" in a box. 3. Reverberation Across The Nation, LP and discography (never published). 4 The Last Magician Of Rational Thought, 7".

Someone pointed my attention to this band from Chile, their sound is very in tune with the bands that I usually post. They have the first album available as a free download on their site, just follow the link, and if you like their music please drop them a comment on the site or MySpace.

Very good concert with good sound, from my favorite era of the 242. I got this on a Forum a long time ago, can't remember the nickname of the original uploader, if by any chance you're reading this, drop me a message and I'll give you the proper credit.

I included also the set from Martina Topley Bird that opened the night. I was trying to post this in FLAC but still didn't found any better version that this, anyway it sounds good. This one is for my friend DrG. Enjoy it.

Monday, 14 December 2009

"Recorded by a friend whose recordings were usually a bit disappointing quality wise, this one thankfully is the exception. Probably a good 8/10. Also, this was a spectacularly good gig.

At the time The Academy was my local venue being only a couple of 100 yards from my bedsit. I wish I had the promotional poster for this gig as they were listed as the Sisters of Mersey. Eldritch mentions this in a rare spoken moment on the tape.

This is the complete recording, I have edited nothing other than taking a spike off the beginning when the recorder was turned on and adding a fade at the end. I'm not sure if they played a short set because they came on early, the main band being an appalling local New Romantic crowd. Their early showtime certainly surprised the taper as the tape starts over the drum intro to Alice."

This is one of my more treasured memories, those first words from Franz never really disappeared from my mind, "Bon Soir. Mes Enfants". Thanks to ziggy for letting me hear them again. In Flac.

Original TXT file:

"First TYG concert in Portugal and a fuelled one. A recording made under really bad conditions due to a full house and not so good recording equipment. But this is what was possible at the time.Recorded from the balcony of the theatre. It is a listenable recording. There is a cut on track 02 at the end due to tape change (i also recorded the opening band Mão Morta) and another cut on track 05 due to a stupid click on the pause button."

Thanks to Mehrlicht for sharing this first, I noticed on his blog that the link was dead, so decided to repost it. Next is my original comment on his blog:

"I was at this concert, and the end was amazing, you had to see to believe it, Lux started to beat on the stage floor with the mic stand, splinters going out in all directions. Then he knelled and tore more pieces of wood, and finally jumped head on into the hole, never to be seen again.

I'll never forget the sight, as I was leaving Campo Pequeno, of two roadies looking at the hole in the stage, if the audience was amazed, they were completly lost out of their minds..."

Brilliant The Cure concert with almost 3 hours. The Cure played about 40 min past curfew till the plug was pulled on “Jumping Someone Elses Train”.

“Just past 12:30 a.m. on Monday, the main lights were turned on, …. Then the big screens were shut off and then the lights on the stage were turned on ….Right after they started “Boys Don’t Cry,” the main speaker was turned-off, but they kept the amps on, on stage. Once the group finished – Jumping Someone Elses Train – and started in on another – Grinding Halt – the stage amps were turned off at 12:40 a.m. Jason kept playing.”

You can hear everything of this in the recording. Good sound.

Main set:

Underneath The StarsPrayers for RainA Strange DayAlt.EndThe End of the WorldLovesongTo Wish Impossible ThingsPictures of YouLullabyFrom the Edge of the Deep Green SeaThe Perfect BoyWrong NumberPushInbetween DaysJust Like HeavenPrimaryShake Dog ShakeThe Hungry GhostDisintegrationOne Hundred YearsIt’s Over

Friday, 27 November 2009

The Nephs in an in between concert, just after the reformation. This edition of the festival is sadly known because it was the one where 9 people were crushed to death during Pearl Jam's concert. Excellent sound.

Wednesday, 25 November 2009

01 Intro02 Rid Of Me03 Big Exit04 Send His Love To Me05 Good Fortune06 You Said Something07 Man-size08 This Wicked Tongue09 A Place Called Home10 The Whores Hustle & The Hustlers Whore11 Sheela-Na-Gig12 This Is Love13 Kamikaze14 Somebody’s Down Somebody’s Name

Tuesday, 17 November 2009

Like in 2002, the Sisters only gave 3 concerts in 2007, this is one of them, in FLAC. One must wonder why a metal festival is headlined by the Sisters... Andrew Eldritch should be happy, since he claimed several times in the 80's that they were a Heavy Metal band. This was probably the first time someone took him seriously on that claim...

A very special event. For the concert at the Royal Albert Hall, on the second encore the band that went up stage was the one that originally recorded the "Love" album, with the original bass player from The Cult, Jamie Stewart, that left the band after the Sonic Temple tour and session player Mark Brzezicki (Big Country, etc).

And a concert from last week. In Flac, according to the wishes of the taper. Excellent sound.

From original TXT file:

"Hot performace, the band is hitting on all cylinders, probably fueled by the masses drunk on cheap draft beer. Shows like this suck to tape due to the people around you, its all about them and their bromances and cell phone pictures.Recording came out better than Detroit, most certainly due to the acoustics and smaller more intimate venue. Very powderful, the best of the three gigs I saw/ taped.Support the band by buying their cds, swag at the gigs and concert tickets."

So, today's posts have a theme (wich is not usual here in the Room), and that is, bands with ex-members of the Sisters of Mercy playing live. To start here's the MC5 playing live with Adam Pearson on the rhythm guitar. Adam was the member of the Sisters that stayed more time in the band (excluding Von and the Doc, of course), from 1993 to 2005. He only recorded the "Under the Gun" single, but helped define the sound of the band (as we know it today) by co-composing most of the unreleased songs and giving new arrangements to the old songs.

This is the concert of the MC5 on the Meldown Festival 2008, where they played with the Primal Scream. There were three sets performed at this show:

Set 1: Primal ScreamSet 2: MC5Set 3: MC5 & Primal Scream

The post only has sets 2 and 3, wich are the one's in wich Adam played.

Set 2: MC5

01. Ramblin' Rose02. Kick Out The Jams03. Come Together04. Motor City Burning05. Call Me Animal06. Sister Anne07. Future/Now08. Over and Over09. Looking At You10. I Believe To My Soul11. The Human Being Lwanmower12. The American Ruse

Friday, 6 November 2009

This is a Double CD bootleg that missed the first the songs, included in the RAR file are Ribbons and Come Together, making the concert more complete, but it's still missing the first song of the concert "Comfortably Numb/Some Kind of Stranger".

RibbonsCome TogetherTrain/Detonation BoulevardAmphetamine LogicWar on DrugsGiving Ground(We Are the Same) SuzanneOn the Wire/Teachers/On the WireWill I DreamDominion/Mother RussiaSummerAnacondaRomeo DownFlood IITemple of LoveFirst and Last and AlwaysThis CorrosionSomething FastVision ThingSister Ray (with Capricorn, Walking the Dog, Louie Louie, Killed by Death and Lucretia)

Set Two10. Rescue11. Show of Strength12. Villiers Terrace / Roadhouse Blues (The Doors cover)13. Stormy Weather14. Forgotten Fields15. Bring On the Dancing Horses16. All My Colours17. All That Jazz18. I Think I Need It Too19. The Back of Love20. The Cutter

Tuesday, 3 November 2009

The Sisters gave two concerts in a row at the Forum. This bootleg has the entire concert from the 6th September and the three songs that differ from the setlist of the 5th September.

06.09.2000

IntroFirst and Last and AlwaysTrain/Detonation BoulevardRibbonsCrash and BurnSummerAmphetamine LogicGiving GroundWill I Dream?Temple of LoveOn the Wire/Teachers/On the WireWe are the Same, SusanneDominion/Mother RussiaRomeo DownWar on DrugsThis CorrosionSomething FastFlood IISnub NoseVision Thing

Notes from original post: Awesome recording. I have never heard The Hand That Feeds sound sooo clear. The interview is excellent. Trent talks about topics from with teeth to his inspiration for Nine Inch Nails. In FLAC.

This and the Honeymoon in Red are my favorite phases of Lydia Lunch. Good concert with very good sound and a wild version of Alice Cooper's "Black Juju".

01. In My Time of Dying02. Pigeon Town03. Solar Hex04. What is Memory05. Cisco Sunset06. Still Burning07. Incubator08. Burning Skulls09. The Gospel Singer10. Black Juju11. Fields of Fire12. Run Through the Jungle13. Oh Jim

Tuesday, 20 October 2009

It's my pleasure to present you the recording from Capitão Gancho of this concert. I checked around and this seems to be the first time this bootleg surfaces. The sound is average, as expected from a recording done more than 20 years ago with a walkman, but it's listenable, and a great concert it is, with the band absolutely perfect and the crowd going wild, as usual in Brasil.A big THANK YOU to Capitão Gancho for sharing his recording with us.

o1. Shake Dog Shake02. Piggy in the Mirror03. Play for Today04. A Strange Day05. Primary06. Kyoto Song07. Charlotte Sometimes08. In Between Days09. The Walkj10. A Night Like This11. Push12. One Hundred Years13. A Forest14. Sinking15. Close To Me16. Let's Go To Bed17. Six Different Ways18. Three Imaginary Boys19. Boys Don't Cry20. 10.15 saturday Night21. Killing An Arab

Tuesday, 13 October 2009

I was really curious to listen to the recordings of the South American concerts by the Sisters, search a little bit, asked some traders, but nobody that I know has them. I'm pretty sure they exist, but for now they're not available. So, using a tool that DocSommer indicated me, I went searching YouTube for videos with decent sound to transfer them to MP3.

Let me tell you, that it's a bitch, searching all the clips (most of them without the name of the song) to try to get as much songs that are listenable and were complete, from each concert.

After completion, and only one concert has the complete setlist (because I broke the rule of the complete songs), I listened to it and actually enjoyed it!

Of course it looks like a Dadaistic text, such are the changes of sound quality and volume.

I call them sketchbook versions because they're a good teaser for when a proper recording surfaces.

Worth listening, if only to hear the overwelming joy of the crowd (imagine waiting 20 years or more for one Sisters concert, like in Argentina and Peru!!!), that goes mad almost on the entire time (in all the concerts), but also because the band is absolutely at it's Peek and Andrew is singing like I haven't hear for some time.

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Thank to everybody that uploaded their videos on YouTube, you're too many to mention individually! But you know who you are.

Hope you enjoy it, I surely don't feel I wasted my time on this pet project.

Monday, 12 October 2009

This excellent recording was made by Sisterstekland, who was kind enough to let me share it. It's actually a new mix, that sounds better than the previous one. The vocals are super clear and the band gives a very good performance, there are some small fluctuations in sound, because the taper was also video recording the concert (some of the images are in the 2009 tour video) and moved position. There are two songs missing from the setlist, Flood II and This Corrosion, that were not recorded. During Train/Detonation Blvd you can hear a security guy demanding that the taper erase the video recording, and getting tricked to accept the battery instead, as any good taper, Sisterstekland had another.:) In FLAC. Links open separately.

Friday, 9 October 2009

Old Vinyl Bootleg, hand numbered, limited edition of 500. It mixes tracks from the Brixton Ace concert with the 1984 Peel session. Some of these tracks are already on the "Carmina Burana" bootleg, but not all of them. I removed the Peel session because I've already posted them, with better sound. Really cool cover.

Well, this was the first "time i had great problems recording a show. My MD decided to play a trick onme and i had strong problems to be able to set volume right when i started to record. I had already set the volume but Peter's engeniers always push the volume too high. It is not the first time i experienced that. Sometimes it gets so high that we can barely take it. So, i fucked up the first 3 songs. I still include them here in order for you to have the full recording, because i haven't seen any other. Zikir is listenable but the next 2 have a lot of high volume distorted parts as also some cuts and sound drops. Then i was able to get it right and got it right for the rest of the show and everything went smooth and the sound is nice and stable."

Saturday, 3 October 2009

The first concert of the Smoke and Mirrors tour. They played "When you Don't See Me" and "Dr Jeep/Detonation Blvd Medley" for the first time. And a special treat with the inclusion of "Burn", the song that used to open their concerts around 1984.

Crash and BurnBurnWhen You Don't See MeDoctor Jeep/Detonation BoulevardWe are the Same, SusanneOn the Wire/Teachers/On the WireWar on drugsFlood IWill I Dream?Dominion/Mother RussiaSummerAnacondaGiving GroundFirst and Last and AlwaysRomeo DownFlood IINever LandTemple of LoveTop Nite OutVision Thing

Friday, 2 October 2009

Good Sound, but some sound fluctuations. Very good performance and an unusual setlist for the tour.

IntroKiss the CarpetRibbonsCome TogetherAmphetamine LogicBody ElectricGiving Ground(We Are the Same) SuzanneOn the Wire/Teachers/On the WireAliceWill I DreamDominion/Mother RussiaSummerAnacondaRomeo DownFlood IIVision ThingComfortably Numb/Some Kind of StrangerFirst and Last and AlwaysThis Corrosion

The fabulous Swans playing a set composed mainly of songs from the "Children of God" double album, wich is my favorite from them (Holy Money and Greed are close behind). Perfect companion to the "Public Castration..." album. Very good sound for an Excellent concert.

Tuesday, 22 September 2009

This an excellent multicam video, edited with images from the Zurich, Bologna, Milano and Paris videos, by Sisterstekland. A big thanks to him for letting me post this beauty. The AVI file is 1,4G and has 31 minutes. Excellent quality.

Hearing these concerts, one has to regret Trent's decision to stop touring...

Huge Thanks to EstebanF for sharing this first! All the concerts have excellent sound.

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Echoplex - Los Angeles, CA - 06.09. 2009

Robin Finck: Guitar, backing vocals

Justin Meldal-Johnsen: Bass, guitar, keyboards, backing vocals

Trent Reznor: Vocals, guitar, keyboards

Ilan Rubin: Drums, keyboards

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Gary Numan joined Nine Inch Nails to perform his songs "Metal" and "I Die: You Die". This was originally the last show Nine Inch Nails would play in the Wave Goodbye tour, but because of Trent Reznor's illness, the show at the Henry Fonda Theater and the one at The Wiltern were rescheduled on September 8 & 10 respectively.

This show was originally scheduled to take place on September 3, but because of Trent Reznor's illness, the show was rescheduled to September 8. Mike Garson joined Nine Inch Nails to perform "Just Like You Imagined," "The Becoming," "I Do Not Want This," and "Down In The Park (Piano Version)". Gary Numan joined Nine Inch Nails to perform his songs "Down In The Park," "Metal" and "Cars.". Eric Avery (Jane's Addiction) joined Nine Inch Nails and Numan to perform "Cars." A cover of Gang Of Four's "Love Like Anthrax" was played by Nine Inch Nails, Numan, Avery and members of support band Health. Former Nine Inch Nails member Danny Lohner joined Nine Inch Nails to perform Queen's "Get Down Make Love" and Nine Inch Nails' "Heresy" and "Mr. Self Destruct." Greg Puciato of Dillinger Escape Plan joined Nine Inch Nails and Lohner to perform "Mr. Self Destruct" and "Wish".

This performance was initially scheduled for September 5, 2009, but was postponed due to Trent Reznor being ill, making it the last Nine Inch Nails show "for the foreseeable future."At 37 songs and over 3 hours in length, this performance was the longest in Nine Inch Nails' career. Before performing "Head Down," Reznor stated: "This is it… but I'm not gonna break down in tears just yet."

Mike Garson once again joined Nine Inch Nails onstage to play piano on "Just Like You Imagined," "La Mer," "Eraser," and "The Becoming." Gary Numan once again joined Nine Inch Nails to perform his songs "Down In The Park," "Metal," and "I Die: You Die." Atticus Ross joined Nine Inch Nails to perform on "Me, I'm Not," "The Warning," and "Piggy (Nothing Can Stop Me Now)." Dave Navarro joined Nine Inch Nails to perform on "The Warning," "Piggy (Nothing Can Stop Me Now)," and "Gave Up." Greg Puciato and Ben Weinman of Dillinger Escape Plan joined Nine Inch Nails to perform on "Mr. Self Destruct." The rest of the band came onstage to perform "Wish". "The Great Below" was included on the setlist in between "Eraser" and "The Becoming" but was omitted from the performance.

The 4 concerts that NIN gave in NY on the Wave goodbye Tour. All with excellent sound. The Links open separetely.

Peter Murphy joined NIN onstage to perform "Reptile," making his stage entrance hanging upside-down (at least on the 26th). He stayed to perform Bauhaus "Kick in the Eye"and Joy Division's "Dead Souls" on the 25th, and his song "Strange Kind Of Love" and Pere Ubu's "Final Solution" on the 26th.

This concert is a very rare gem, The Cult are caught live before they went to NY to re-record the "Peace" album with Rick Rubin (later re-titled "Electric"), so they play the songs still in it's abandoned form, with all the effects on the guitar and voice, "Peace Dog" is absolutely irrecognizable and still called "Peace" only... The main set is composed of songs from the "Love" album, so this is perfect to warm up for the concert.

Still hadn't post any bootleg from this great band and it was a shame, so here it is. Good sound.

01 Intro02 The Trash03 What's Going Down04 Always There05 The World Is Ours06 You Don't Belong07 Nowhere To Run08 Not Another Day09 Dreamland10 The Kings Of Fools11 Too Many Castles In The Sky12 Don't Fly Too High13 The Rainkeeper14 Can You See This Life

My friend BTT got this tape two decades ago, through a bootleg tapes company in Portugal, the cover was a bad photocopy of the original tape, whose image is in the post. The original tape didn't has a tracklist nor this copy, so I searched the net and found a tracklist for this release, but it's not correct, unless some of the versions played live are beyond recognition... I decided to post instead an english translation of the text on the cover of the portuguese cassette, that I think is already a translation of the original german text on the cover of the original tape.

"We don't want to produce sounds. No to music! There's already enough. making music is up to musicians, therefore servants. What we care about is making an happening. No to Music! The recording of intensity is impossible."

Thursday, 10 September 2009

A new version for Sisterstekland DVD with highlights from the 2005 European tour. The editing it's simple but works marvellous, it gives a dreamlike aspect that I like very much, It's like watching someone's memories. The second best thing to being there. Very cool document about the last tour Adam Pearson did with the Sisters. A big Thanks to Sisterstekland for letting me post this DVD.

Sunday, 6 September 2009

From the first moment I heard "Written in Blood" I got hooked to this band, they have a sound reminiscent of a lot of bands I like from the 80's but at the same time very modern. This is a very good session, perfect for an intoduction.

The Berlin-based Sprung Aus Den Wolken were part of the "Geniale Dilletanten"-movement in the early 80's along with Einstürzende Neubauten and M.D.K. They made a couple of records on their own Faux Pas and Les Disques Du Soleil Et De L'Acier. Their song "Pas Attendre" was used on Wim Wenders' "Wings of Desire" movie and became some kind of underground hit.

So, you can imagine the excitement that it was when we heard that they were coming to Portugal, they were the next best thing to having Neubauten, so the place was crowded (it was very small, 500 people inside and you couldn't move). My friend BTT recorded this concert because it was very dificult to find their records in Portugal at the time, it seemed the only way of listening to them again.

The concert itself was more than 20 years ago, so I have very little memories, but from what I hear in the recording it seems to have been a happening, 1 hour and a half long of performance, with lots of improvisation during some songs, and the crowd is going wild. The sound is very good, again for a recording made on a walkman.

Unfortunately I don't have a tracklisting, so if someone can help with it, I would appreciate it.

Wednesday, 2 September 2009

Bootleg with early material from the Sisters, it has the earliest live recording known until now, wich is "Good Things" from the concert in Leeds in 16.02.81. The last three tracks are taken from the Gary marx Tape.

Tuesday, 1 September 2009

So, The Cult will be back in Portugal on the 25th September, on the "Love Live" tour, this is excellent news since "Love" is my favorite album from them. It will be wonderful to hear again songs that have long exited their setlist like Big Neon Glitter and Hollow Man. So as a preview of what's to come, here a concert from last week, already from the "Love Live" tour. This actually is the first version of Black Angel played live that I've heard... I don't know the source, but the sound is excellent, soundboard or FM broadcast for sure.

And to continue the celebration of the upcoming The Cult concert in Portugal, here's two concerts from last year. Since they played them in a row the setlist is different and cover as many new stuff as older songs that they didn't play live for a long time. Very good sound.